The American Dialect Society will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America Thursday, January 4, through Sunday, January 7, 2024, in New York, NY. The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Times Square. This is the schedule as of December 31, 2023. Any later changes will be reflected on this page.
| Title | Presenter(s) | Room | |||
| Thursday Jan. 4 | |||||
| Time | |||||
| 12:30-2:30 | ADS Executive Council Meeting | ||||
| 2:30-3:00 | ADS Annual Business Meeting | ||||
| Session 1: Ethnic and Regional Identity; Chair: Sharese King | |||||
| Paper #1 | 3:15-3:45 | Ethnic identity and regional accommodation in a long-term, isolated community | Walt Wolfram, North Carolina State University | ||
| Paper #2 | 3:45-4:15 | Metapragmatics of mobility: Language, race, and identity negotiation | PraiseGod Aminu, University of Pittsburgh | ||
| Paper #3 | 4:15-4:45 | PIN/PEN in Raleigh: Socially conditioned unmerger | Irene Smith, McGill University; Morgan Sonderegger, McGill University; Robin Dodsworth, North Carolina State University | ||
| Paper #4 | 4:45-5:15 | Social class, migration, and intra-dialect contact in the development of Detroit AAE vowel systems | Charlie Farrington, Virginia Tech; Kaylynn Gunter, Amazon | ||
| Paper #5 | 5:15-5:45 | Speaking([g]) of place and ethnicity: (NG) realization among Utah teens | Lisa Morgan Johnson, Brigham Young University | ||
| WOTY Nominations | 6:30-7:30 | ||||
| Friday Jan. 5 | |||||
| Session 2: Linguistic Atlas/Dictionary Studies; Chair: Betsy Evans | |||||
| Paper #6 | 8:00-8:30 | Usage citations in the digital era: “hooker” as a case study | David Wilton, Institute for Advanced Study | ||
| Paper #7 | 8:30-9:00 | The (slow) burning of the library of Alexandria: Data degradation in the Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States, a case study | John Winstead University of Kentucky | ||
| Paper #8 | 9:00-9:30 | A linguistic atlas for the 21st century: We’ll keep the baby, the bathwater, and more, thanks | Allison Burkette, University of Kentucky; Dennis Preston, University of Kentucky | ||
| Paper #9 | 9:30-10:00 | Black Boston Speaks: A phonological atlas of English in Boston’s Black community | Monica Nesbitt, Indiana University; Amalia L. Robinson, Indiana University; Joel Jenkins, Indiana University | ||
| Session 3: Panel 1 – Movement, Economy, Orientation: 20th Century Shifts in North American Language; Chairs: Monica Nesbitt, Joey Stanley, and Peggy Renwick | |||||
| 10:15-10:25 | Introductory Remarks | Monica Nesbitt, Joey Stanley, and Peggy Renwick | |||
| Paper #10 | 10:25-10:45 | Changes in dialect and dialect perception in Cooperstown, New York | Aaron Dinkin, San Diego State University | ||
| Paper #11 | 10:45-11:05 | Mass migration and the proliferation of AIN’T for DIDN’T in Philadelphia | Sabriya Fisher, Wellesley College | ||
| Paper #12 | 11:05-11:25 | Demographics, migration, and the African American vowel system in Georgia | Jon Forrest, University of Georgia; Margaret E. L. Renwick, University of Georgia; Joseph A. Stanley, Brigham Young University; Lelia Glass, Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
| Paper #13 | 11:25-11:45 | Warshing away Missoura: Stigmatization as a catalyst for sound change | Matthew Gordon, University of Missouri; Christopher Strelluf, University of Warwick | ||
| 11:45-12:05 | Q&A session | ||||
| Session 4: Regional Phonological Variation; Chair: Nicole Rosen | |||||
| Paper #14 | 1:30-2:00 | Phonetic diffusion in the Niagara border region | Claire Henderson, McGill University | ||
| Paper #15 | 2:00-2:30 | The actuation problem: Identifying phonetic precursors of phonological /aɪ/ raising | Marie Bissell, The Ohio State University; Kelly Berkson, Indiana University; Irina Shport, Louisiana State University; Stuart Davis, Indiana University | ||
| Paper #16 | 2:30-3:00 | Exploring the vowel space in Minnes[o]ta across apparent time | Alexandra Pfiffner, University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Paper #17 | 3:00-3:30 | Final stop aspiration: A Norwegian-English feature in Wisconsin English? | Laura Moquin, University of Wisconsin-Madison | ||
| Session 5: Grammatical Variation; Chair: Valerie Fridland | |||||
| Paper #18 | 3:45-4:15 | Copula absence variation in child and adult corpus speech | Jordyn Martin, University of Chicago | ||
| Paper #19 | 4:15-4:45 | The evolution of present tense copula and auxiliary negation in 20th century African American English | Patricia Cukor-Avila, University of North Texas; Guy Bailey, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley | ||
| Paper #20 | 4:45-5:15 | What’s the BIG deal? It’s HUGE! The adjectives of largeness in North American English | Sali A. Tagliamonte, University of Toronto; Bridget L. Jankowski, University of Toronto | ||
| Paper #21 | 5:15-5:45 | Untangling the diachrony of variable ‘used to’: How many directions of change? | Marisa Brook, University of Essex | ||
| WOTY Vote | 7:30-9:00 | ||||
| 5-Minute Linguist | 9:15-10:45 | ||||
| Saturday Jan. 6 | |||||
| ADS Breakfast/President Address/Awards, Chair: Julie Roberts | |||||
| 8:30-10:15 | A sense of place and belonging in the American Dialect Society | Kathryn Remlinger, Grand Valley State University | |||
| Session 6: Panel 2 – Towards an Inclusive Dialectology: Developing an Agenda for Research on Minoritized Dialects, Chairs: Robert Bayley and Erica J. Benson | |||||
| 10:30-10:40 | Introductory remarks | Robert Bayley, University of California, Davis; Erica J. Benson, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire | |||
| Paper #22 | 10:40-11:00 | Bridging structure and social meaning in African American Language | J. Michael Terry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Lisa J. Geeen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst | ||
| Paper #23 | 11:00-11:20 | Language in U.S. Latinx communities: Perspectives for inclusive dialectology | Phillip Carter, Florida International University; Lydda López-Valdez, University of Miami | ||
| Paper #24 | 11:20-11:40 | Globalization, localization and minoritized languages in North America | Michael Picone, University of Alabama | ||
| Paper #25 | 11:40-12:00 | (Socio)linguistics–What is it good for? A case for liberatory linguistics | Anne H. Charity Hudley, Stanford University; Dan Villarreal, University of Pittsburgh; Aris M. Clemons, University of Tennessee | ||
| 12:00-12:20 | Q&A session | ||||
| Poster Session (online in Gather https://app.gather.town/events/LUvDdZP0RIKAuvWlK9dP) | |||||
| 1:00-2:00 | |||||
| Poster #1 | “I have thoughts pero like I’ll keep them to myself”: pero like as a resource for stance-taking among heritage Spanish speakers | Kristen Fleckenstein, Coastal Carolina University; Juliet Huynh, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
| Poster #2 | Which witch?: The merger of /ʍ/ and /w/ over time | Rachyl Hietpas, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Norah Howell, University of Wisconsin-Madison | |||
| Poster #3 | From spider to skillet: Diachronic methods applied to the LAP | Nour Kayali, University of Kentucky; Eleanor Wren-Hardin University of Kentucky | |||
| Poster #4 | Page 7A: Looking at the hand drawn home layouts in the Linguistic Atlas Project | Catherine Mott, University of Kentucky | |||
| Poster #5 | Social proximity and “things like that” | Amanda Payne, Haverford College | |||
| Poster #6 | Cross-study reliability of neural network auto-coders for rhoticity | Brandon Prickett, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Sarah Gupta, AWS AI Labs; Monica Nesbitt, Indiana University; Joe Peter, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; James Stanford, Dartmouth University | |||
| Poster #7 | Vowel patterning in four regions of Manitoba, Canada | Nicole Rosen, University of Manitoba; Lisa Sullivan, University of Manitoba | |||
| Poster #8 | An American portrait of Italian dialects: A guide to “The White Lotus” season two | Giulio Scivoletto, University of Catania | |||
| Poster #9 | There are no dialects in Russian, say native speakers | Alexandra Serbinovskaya, Oklahoma State University | |||
| Poster #10 | “For this recipe, you’ll need…”: The food blog as a mocked register | Eleanor Wren-Hardin, University of Kentucky | |||
| Poster #11 | Raising via PRIDE lowering in Michigan | Caroline Zackerman, Michigan State University; Betsy Sneller, Michigan State University | |||
| Session 7: Language and the Media and IT; Chair: Alexandra Serbinovskaya | |||||
| Paper #26 | 2:00-2:30 | The path to becoming a public linguist | Valerie Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno | ||
| Paper #27 | 2:30-3:00 | The past temporal reference verb forms of broadcast standard American English | Brian José, ((The Center for Language Education Research at) Indiana State University | ||
| Paper #28 | 3:00-3:30 | Awebo la vieja skuela: A corpus-driven examination of language contact and alternative orthographies in US-Latin hip hop comments | Matt Garley, York College and the Graduate Center, CUNY | ||
| Paper #29 | 3:30-4:00 | On determining the “Southernness” of vowel orientations: A Southern Vowel Shift Index (SVSI) | Ryan Dekker, Arizona State University | ||
| Paper #30 | 4:00-4:30 | Mapping the stochastic parrot: ChatGPT as a tool for dialectological inquiry | Ian schneider, The Pennsylvania State University | ||
| Session 8: Perceptions/Identity; Chair: Aidan Malanoski | |||||
| Paper #31 | 4:45-5:15 | The interplay of dialect and legal profession in the courtroom | Sharese King, University of Chicago; Marisa Casillas Tice, University of Chicago | ||
| Paper #32 | 5:15-5:45 | Quantifying features at different levels of variation: the language practices of AAE-speaking high-schoolers | Li-Fang Lai, Pomona College; Gaby Poplawski, Pomona College; Nicole Holliday, Pomona College | ||
| Paper #33 | 5:45-6:15 | How do you hear a place?: The effect of indexical strength of place-linked associations on regional US dialect classification | Katie Carmichael, Virginia Tech; Annette D’Onofrio, Northwestern University | ||
| Paper #34 | 6:15-6:45 | Enregistering “the North:” Its otherly language, geography, and demeanor according to the American East | Patrick Gehringer, University of Kentucky | ||
| Sunday Jan. 7 | |||||
| Session 9: Discourse and Identity; Chair: Charles Carson | |||||
| Paper #35 | 8:30-9:00 | Bitch! It’s a discourse marker | Bruce McCleary, Rice University | ||
| Paper #36 | 9:00-9:30 | Uptalk in bilingual Mexican American narratives | Tyler Méndez Kline, University of California, Davis | ||
| Paper #37 | 9:30-10:00 | Yup↓: Subverting regional stereotypes with pulmonic ingressive discourse particles in Canadian Maritime English | Matt Hunt Gardner, University of Oxford | ||
| Paper #38 | 10:00-10:30 | Is ‘they wants’ what they want? Contrasting ideologies about singular they and verb agreement on different media sources | Mechelle Wu, University of Toronto | ||
| Session 10: Measuring Phonological Variation; Chair: Marissa Brook | |||||
| Paper #39 | 10:45-11:15 | Acoustic cues to TRAP tensing in Rochester, New York: Beyond single-point measures | Julianne Kapner, University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Paper #40 | 11:15-11:45 | How dialects vary: Point pattern analysis of phonetic measurements | William A. Kretzschmar, Jr., University of Georgia; Katherine Ireland, University of Georgia; Michael Olsen Southern Illinois University; Rachel Olsen, Southern Illinois University | ||
| Paper #41 | 11:45-12:15 | Social meanings across the vowel chart: Variable co-occurrence in California English | Dan Villarreal, University of Pittsburgh; James Grama, Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen | ||
| Paper #42 | 12:15-12:45 | A report on /oy/-monophthongization in Baltimore | Aidan Malanoski, CUNY Graduate Center | ||